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    Bulletin No. 173 · Telemetry online
    Posted 22 Jun 2026

    The AI agent that builds your backlinks.

    It finds the opportunity, writes the pitch, works the reply, and confirms the link is live — escalating only the judgment calls to you.

    The discover → pitch → reply → verify grind of a junior SEO, without the headcount.

    TrustGmail & Google Workspace · your own sending domain · links verified, then watched weekly. See how it works

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    Outreach Bulletin
    Campaign · acme.io
    Dispatch · live
    Links secured
    0· this month
    • Prospects142 found
    • Pitched38 sent
    • Replied9 · 31%
    • Secured4 dofollow
    Outreach activity · last 24h31%
    agent/find · 18 queued
    Mm · Issue 01
    02 · Why this exists

    Link building is the highest-leverage thing in SEO — and the most soul-crushing to do by hand.

    01
    Hours gone before a single email.

    Finding prospects, real contact addresses, and the angle is the job before the job.

    Run on a schedule.

    02
    Personalize or scale — pick one.

    Templated blasts get ignored; page-specific pitches don't scale past a few a day.

    Every pitch written to the page — at volume.

    03
    The reply pile never ends.

    “What's your DR?” “Send the draft?” “We charge for links.” Follow-ups eat your week.

    Routine replies handled; only real decisions reach you.

    04
    You never really know if the link went up.

    A promise isn't a placement, and links quietly disappear.

    Verified live, re-checked weekly — you hear if it vanishes.

    05
    Cold outreach can torch your inbox.

    Send wrong and your real mail lands in spam for months.

    Warmup pacing + health-gated sending protect your reputation.

    06
    Your tools are half-tools.

    Outreach platforms lack deliverability; cold-email senders lack the link-building loop.

    Closes the whole loop and verifies the result.

    Everything below is one system doing all six — while you sleep.

    Section 03 · The loop

    One loop, start to live link
    — and you only touch the edge cases.

    Find, write, reply, verify. The agent runs the whole circuit and hands you only the calls that need a human.
    STEP 01FIND

    Find opportunities

    agent/find · 142 scanned · 18 queued

    What happens here — Bring your own prospects or let the agent prospect for you. It reads each target page, checks relevance and authority, and only queues opportunities a human would actually pitch.

    Section · Live demo

    Watch the agent
    run the whole loop — live.

    No tour to click through. This is the real dashboard, auto-playing the path from a brand URL to a verified backlink.
    Campaigns
    New backlink campaign
    https://…
    Deliverability monitoring + an AI backlink agent for cold outreach.
    Resource pageBroken linkUnlinked mentionGuest post
    Require review before sending
    Live demo — auto-playing·Creating a campaign

    Tap a dot to jump · loops continuously

    Section 04 · Overnight dispatch

    What you wake up to
    — while you slept.

    A representative overnight run. Link building used to be a full-time seat — now it's a morning summary.
    0
    opportunities found

    scored for relevance and authority overnight

    0
    replies handled

    follow-ups and objections answered automatically

    0
    links secured

    verified live and added to the weekly sweep

    It asks you before anything weird. Price quotes, link swaps, or any reply outside its playbook get paused and escalated to your inbox. The agent never commits money or a trade on your behalf — those are always your call.

    2 escalations · awaiting you
    · How it finds prospects

    It finds link opportunities the way a good outreach specialist would
    — then scores them so you pitch the best first.

    Three ways in — and every prospect ranked before a single email goes out.
    A
    Topical prospecting

    Give it your niche; it runs the searches a link builder would — resource pages, 'best tools' lists, roundups — and pulls a real contact email off each page.

    B
    Unlinked mentions

    It hunts pages that already name your brand but never linked to you — the warmest backlink there is — and queues them for a friendly nudge.

    C
    Bring your own list

    Already have targets? Import a CSV. The agent verifies the emails, scores relevance, and runs them through the same loop.

    SCORING0–100 fit

    The best opportunities sort to the top.

    agent/find · 142 scanned · 18 queued · verified · scored

    Every prospect is scored 0–100 for fit by the LLM, with a one-line reason. High-fit, high-authority targets sort to the top, so your budget goes where it converts. Known-bad emails are dropped before they cost you a send.

    Budget spent where it converts
    · How it writes

    Not a mail-merge template. It reads the page,
    picks the angle, and writes the pitch in your voice.

    Five real angles — the agent chooses the one the page actually calls for.
    • 01Broken link

      Spots a dead link on their page and offers your page as the fix.

    • 02Resource page

      Explains why your brand belongs on the list, next to what's already there.

    • 03Unlinked mention

      Thanks them for the mention and asks for the link.

    • 04Competitor gap

      Notes one thing you cover that a linked competitor doesn't — without disparaging.

    • 05Guest post

      Pitches one specific topic in one sentence.

    Every pitch is spam-linted before it sends, signed with your persona, and carries a working unsubscribe link — under 120 words, because that's what gets replies.

    spam-lint · signed · <120 words
    · Replies, handled

    The agent works the thread — and knows when to stop and ask you.

    Handled automatically
    No action needed from you
    • Interestedconfirms and moves it forward
    • Wants to see the pagesends it
    • Wants your metrics (DR, traffic)answers from your persona
    • Polite nocloses it out gracefully
    • “Link's up”triggers verification
    • Silencesends a measured follow-up (your cadence, capped)
    Always escalated to you
    Your judgment call
    • They name a price
    • They propose a link swap
    • Anything hostile or off-script
    • Low-confidence reads

    The agent never commits money or a trade on your behalf. Those land in a small escalation inbox with a ready-to-edit draft — your call, always.

    agent/reply · auto · escalate
    The moat
    Cold-email tools have deliverability. Outreach tools have the workflow. We're the one agent that closes the whole loop — discover, pitch, reply, verify, keep watching — paced to protect your domain. The moat isn't one trick; it's the loop, closed.
    Most agents stop at “sent.” We verify the link is live and dofollow, re-check weekly, and learn which sites keep their links — sharper the more you run it.
    Section 05 · Loss audit

    The quiet crisis of
    undelivered mail.

    Roughly 54% of cold outbound never reaches the primary inbox. You don't see the bounces — and neither does your CRM. MailerMonk inspects the whole route.

    Outbound · 1,000 sends
    In primary inbox
    460
    • Silent drops · SPF/DKIM misalignment140 · 14%
    • Spam folder · domain on blocklist220 · 22%
    • Promotions tab · low sender rep180 · 18%
    • Primary inbox460 · 46%
    Funnel · /api/audit live demo
    Section 06 · Instruments

    Four instruments,
    one operations console.

    Each panel below pulls real telemetry in production. Hover any instrument to inspect.
    DMARC alignment
    Policy enforcement
    nonequarantinereject
    Sender reputation
    Postmaster Tools · 30d
    74
    +4.2 vs 30d
    incident detected · auto-mitigated
    Blocklist scan
    12 RBLs · 60-min sweep
    1 listingof 12 RBLs
    Inbox placement
    Seed test · last 24h
    86%
    inbox
    • Inbox86%
    • Promotions10%
    • Spam4%
    Section 07 · Route map

    The route a postcard
    takes before arriving.

    Every email crosses five checkpoints. We inspect the cargo at each one.
    CHECKPOINT 01DNS

    Origin resolved

    MailerMonk pulls A, MX, TXT for the sending domain.

    What we do here — We resolve every record that affects deliverability in under a second — even before the first email leaves your CRM.

    /api/route/dns · sampled every 15min
    Section 08 · The gap

    Two half-tools, or
    one that closes the loop.

    Outreach platforms have the workflow but no deliverability. Cold-email senders have deliverability but no link-building loop. We do both, and verify the link at the end.
    Outreach platformsPitchbox · BuzzStream
    • Finds backlink opportunities
    • Writes & sends the outreach
    • Handles replies & escalates edge cases
    • Monitors sending-domain health
    • Verifies the link is actually placed
    • Re-checks links weekly
    Cold-email sendersInstantly · Smartlead
    • Finds backlink opportunities
    • Writes & sends the outreach
    • Handles replies & escalates edge cases
    • Monitors sending-domain health
    • Verifies the link is actually placed
    • Re-checks links weekly
    MailerMonkThe agent
    • Finds backlink opportunities
    • Writes & sends the outreach
    • Handles replies & escalates edge cases
    • Monitors sending-domain health
    • Verifies the link is actually placed
    • Re-checks links weekly
    · What's working

    See what's working
    honestly.

    Real numbers, measured conservatively. We'd rather under-claim than sell you a flattering metric you can't trust.
    A
    Opens & clicks

    Per-email opens and clicks, with Apple/Gmail auto-prefetches filtered out so “opened” means a human, not a proxy.

    B
    Reply & link rates

    Reply rate, link-secured rate, and time-to-first-reply per campaign.

    C
    AI optimization advisor

    The agent analyzes your best send times and follow-up lift, then tells you what to change.

    Repeat opens on Gmail are under-counted due to proxy caching — replies and clicks are the signals we trust.

    Section 10 · Disposition

    Someone is
    always watching.

    MailerMonk runs the way a careful postmaster might if they never slept: every DNS record, every blocklist, every postmaster ping — logged, scored, and quietly remembered.

    On the right is a sample of the journal — the kind of observation we write down for every domain we look after.

    Monk's Journal · today
    • 27:08Watching · acme-agency.com TLS-RPT report received.
    • 21:51Tea break · DKIM rotation completed for two sub-accounts.
    • 15:34Tally · 11 listings cleared in the last 30 days.
    • 09:17Sunset check · all enforcement policies still at p=reject.
    • 03:00Dawn check · Spamhaus DBL clean across 14 sending domains.
    entries auto-redacted for privacytail · 8
    Section 11 · Sample post

    Five free checks
    from the same engine.

    A free taste of the deliverability engine that protects your campaigns. No signup.

    Sample output · DMARC checker

    Inspect the DMARC TXT record at _dmarc.<domain> and parse the policy.

    policy
    p=reject
    alignment
    adkim=s · aspf=s
    rua
    mailto:rua@dmarc.example
    subdomain
    sp=reject
    no sign-in requiredRun DMARC checker →
    Section 12 · Postage

    Priced by how much
    outreach you run.

    Every plan includes the full agent — discovery, AI pitches, reply automation, verification, and deliverability. It does the work a junior SEO or VA would, without the headcount; paid plans just unlock more of it.

    Estimate · sends / monthrecommend
    1.2kStarter
    3025,000
    at this volume$39 /mo · $32.50/k sends
    Free
    $0/mo

    30 sends + 50 prospects found / mo

    Watch the agent work.

    See the full discovery loop on a small first campaign.

    Manual send · no automation
    • Prospect discovery
    • AI-drafted pitches
    • Link verification
    • Deliverability tools — DMARC, SPF, MX, blocklist
    • 1 campaign
    • Manual review only — you approve and send. No automation.
    Install MailerMonk
    Recommended
    Starter
    $39/mo

    1,200 sends + 800 prospects found / mo

    Put it on autopilot.

    The agent sends, follows up, and handles replies for you.

    ✓ Automated sending unlocked
    • Everything in Free, plus:
    • Automated paced sending
    • Reply automation
    • Silence follow-ups
    • Domain-health-gated sending
    • Open & click tracking
    • 2 campaigns · 1 sending domain
    Install MailerMonk
    Most popular
    Pro
    $99/mo

    3,000 sends + 2,500 prospects found / mo

    Scale & optimize.

    More campaigns, more domains, and an AI advisor tuning it all.

    ✓ Automated sending unlocked
    • Everything in Starter, plus:
    • 10 campaigns
    • Multiple sending domains
    • AI insights & optimization advisor
    • Custom personas
    • API + webhooks
    Install MailerMonk
    Agency
    $249/mo

    8,000 sends + 6,000 prospects found / mo

    Run it for clients.

    White-label outreach at agency scale.

    ✓ Automated sending unlocked
    • Everything in Pro, plus:
    • Unlimited campaigns
    • Unlimited sending domains
    • White-label
    • Priority support
    Install MailerMonk
    High volume
    Scale
    $499/mo

    16,000 sends + 12,000 prospects found / mo

    Run it at agency scale.

    Maximum sending and discovery volume, with white-glove support.

    ✓ Automated sending unlocked
    • Everything in Agency, plus:
    • 2× the sending + discovery volume
    • Priority support
    • White-glove onboarding
    • Priority model routing
    Section 13 · Correspondence

    Things people ask
    before signing up.

    Final · ready when you are

    Stop guessing where
    your emails actually land.

    Seven days free. No credit card. Cancel any time. Start watching a domain in two minutes.

    From
    mailermonk.com
    trial · 7 days · no card
    To
    <your sending domain>
    watched · alerted · improved